My dear family!
It has been a great week!
Full of miracles, the spirit, new investigators, lots of new ideas and
christmas decorations? what??! That came fast. This week was Canción
Criolla, on halloween, a celebration of the music of Peru! I really want
to learn all of these peruivian dances one day. But until then, we have
been able to find new families and are seeing progress in the branches.
Little by little. The leaders from both branches have been feeling
alone lately, so we have been supporting them more and finding new ways
to serve and help. Oh, and it was also día de los muertos! Everyone went
to the cemetary and traveled back to their home lands if they have
moved. They have parties there all night! Im glad we live far from the
cemetary.
I have really been focusing on the
gifts of the spirit and being worthy of them, and it has been incredible
to feel how much more I have felt the spirit working through me as I
constantly strive after those gits. In our district meeting we talked
about them, and one thing that came to my mind was that when we obtain
more gifts of the spirit, we are better able to help others to obtain
them as well. I had the opportuinity to help Rene do her visiting
teaching, and afterwards she was so sweet. She said, ÿou are so
spiritual, I ahve never been so guided by the spirit in a visit before.¨
Well, it wasnt me, it was the spirit, and it was awesome that she was
able to recognize that!
One great miracle was
how we were led to Consuelo (that means comfort.) and her three kids.
Well our message sure can bring her consuelo! :) Her daughter had
attended church before, and they are suffering trials right now with the
separation of her husband. When we walked by the door I felt a surge of
the spirit guiding me there. They are super interested and she says
that she will be baptized when she knows all this is true! I love
finding people who really truly have a desire to change and to come to
know what we teach is true!
The other miracles
we have seen are helping to complete part member families. Through our
recent converts and less actives and asking for references always, we
have so much more work to do! I love it. Im so thankful for this great
work and I know that there is so much more work through the spirit to do
here in this lovely month of November! Im ready to do it! We have been
teaching Carlos Zapata´s kids! Jesus (14) and Marryanngel (10). they
both live with their mom, who is evangelica and doenst want to listen to
us, but she says her kids can. Carlos lives a few streets away, and he
takes them to churhc with him and its the greatest. Really the reason
why they started listening to us was thanks to two way great other
recent converts, Fernando and Kristofer maldonado! They just went over
to his house and told him how cool the gospel was, and finding those two
friends was what made him loose any fear in coming to chruch! When we
were teaching him, he said yes to being baptized right away! I sure hope
Ill be here for that, but if not thats ok too. I am just so blessed to
be part of this conversion process for these great families! I love in
the distric videos we watch, when German is invited to be baptized. He
says, ¨Im willing, and I accept!¨That´s how it went with Jesus. It was
so sweet. He has such great questions and knows these things are true!
He said the day after he prayed, his day just went really good, and he
feels like that was his answer. He is going to be a great missionary one
day! :)
Recently I´ve been reading entries
from my journal in the mtc! ha it is so great, I really have grown so
much and what I thought was hard back then, well really isn´t at all. I
was also reading when I got set apart, and the advice President Prier
gave me to laser focus in on part member families. I have really seen
how I have been able to do this throughout the mission, and right now
especially! Completeing families is just as important as finding and
baptizing them! So that is what we will keep doing.
We
had a neat experience with Rosa! She is a less active member, who for
one reason or antther has hardened her heart against the chruch. We went
with the spirit, and have tried about 10 times to visit her without
success, and well she received us! And what did we do, we just listened
with love! That was what she needed. And well, we found out her reason
for leaving the church wasnt what anyone thought it was at all, and
through listening through the spirit we were able to find out more and
know how to help her! I´m so thankful for the guidance of the spirit!
So
that´s whats going on with me. October really flew by! The other night
when I was pondering before prayer, I was reminded of a fun memory! I
remembered how with Nate we would make animation videos out of play
dough! I remember how once we made this really awesome video. With
animals and everything and it was just really cool. We would press play,
then pause fast, and then move the play dough a little. Then keep going
until when you watch it, it looks like it is moving all by itself.
Well, taht once was really sad, because whne we were all done and ready
to watch it, nothing came up!! what happened??? we hadnt pushed down the
button long enough to let it record anything! So instead of having an
awesome video to watch, we had nothing. I thought about how life is kind
of like that. Sometimes we ahve days we dont push down the putton for
long enough. And then when we get to the end, we miss everything! That´s
why its so important to live in today. not yesterday, not tomorrow,
but today! because today is the day we choose to make memories that
will last for eternity. So I hope all yall including me can keep pushing
down the button for enough time to really see what matters most adn to
make memories that will last for forever. :)
Bueno.
Espero que todavía puedan entender mi ingles. jaja. Estoy tan
agradecida por el evangelio de Jesucristo y por mi llamamiento como
misionera. Me encanta que dice en Doctrinas y convenios 33¨:6´-12. He
ayunado y orado para llegar a ser una misionera así! Espero que todos
puedan esforzar aún más a compartir sus testimonies con todos! Yo sé que
Cristo vive, y que este es la iglesia verdadera. No tengo ninguna duda
de mi corazón! Los amo mucho! Juntos podemos hacer cualquier cosa si
confiamos en nuestro Salvador. Venga lo que venga, disfrútalo!
I love yall tons!
Hermana Garlick
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